Great political quotes

[dobak]

I just got this from my father-in-law

Please add any that you know.

1. *Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain

2. *We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
--Winston Churchill

3. *A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw

4. *A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-- G. Gordon Liddy

5. *Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
--James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6. *Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
--Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U.(1992)

7. *Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
--P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

8. *Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
--Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9. *Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-- Ronald Reagan (1986)

10. *I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
--Will Rogers

11. *If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
--P.J. O'Rourke

12. *If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
--Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time
(1995)

13. *In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
--Voltaire (1764)

14. *Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
--Pericles (430 B.C.)

15. *No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
--Mark Twain (1866)

16. *Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it.
--(Unknown)

17. *The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
--Ronald Reagan

18. *The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill

19. *The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
--Mark Twain

20. *The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

21. *There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
--Mark Twain

22. *What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995

[Guaranteed]

1. Alright...

soooo....are you a Democrat or a Libertarian?

[dobak]

3. I am a Democrat

My father-in-law is an independent

I don't agree with most of these quotes, but they are good ones.

[Cat Atomic]

2. "A witty saying proves nothing."- Voltaire

:)

[youngred]

4. I have a very hard time that Ronald Ray-Gun

even knows what an alimentary canal is let alone how to use it in an analogy.

My favourite:

"Although it may not be true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative"
-John Stuart Mill

[rman]

5. "Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin"

a few of my favorite political quotes

1787 - President Thomas Jefferson
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
...
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

1881 - President James Abram Garfield (ASSASINATED)
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."

1829 - President Andrew Jackson
"You (the bankers) are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the eternal God, will rout you out."
"If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations."

1864 - President Abraham Lincoln (ASSASINATED)
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

~1880? - Chancelor Otto Von Bismarck
"I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of (humanity) into war and chaos in order that the earth shall become their inheritance."

1920 - President of The Bank of England Sir Josiah Stamp
"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it (the power to create deposits) away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."

1920 - writer Maynard Keynes
"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." (Economic Consequences of the Peace)

1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president."

1953 - journalist John Swinton
"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

1954 - Senator William Jenner
"We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureacratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side. All the strange developments in foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure. This political action group has its own local political support organizations, its own pressure groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government, and its own propaganda apparatus."

1960 - Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank
"Deficit spending is simply a scheme for confiscation of wealth."

1963 - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (ASSASINATED)
"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight."

~199? - Rubin Frank, former president NBC News:
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising."